Scaling characteristics of photonic crystal verticle-cavity lasers
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Authors
Danner, Aaron J.
Raftery, James J.
Leisher, Paul O.
Choquette, Kent D.
Issue Date
2004
Type
proceedings-article
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Keywords
Photonic crystals , Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers , Apertures , Optical refraction , Optical variables control , Surface emitting lasers , Laser modes , Etching , Optical devices , Distributed Bragg reflectors
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Abstract
This study shows that photonic crystal vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers exhibit improved optical confinement and resultant scaling of laser properties, as well as single fundamental mode operation over a wide range of device structure parameters. Single fundamental mode operation is achieved for a wide range of device parameters. The use of photonic crystal confinement, in which the etched holes and light propagation are parallel, provides a means for significantly reducing the modal volume of microcavity lasers.
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Citation
A. Danner, J. Raftery, P. Leisher and K. D. Choquette, "Scaling characteristics of photonic crystal vertical-cavity lasers," The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEELasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004., Rio Grande, PR, USA, 2004, pp. 178-179 Vol.1, doi: 10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363169.
Publisher
IEEE